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Easy Answer

Daily writing prompt
Describe one of your favorite moments.
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There is one favorite moment that stands above all other favorite moments. Obviously there are a lot of favorites over the course of over 50 years, but there is one that is the clear favorite of favorites.

May 30, 2009. I stood at the alter and waited patiently, with the biggest smile ever, as my bride to be walked down the aisle toward me. We then stood together in front of family and friends and expressed our love for each other and vowed to share the rest of our days together.

As favorite moments go, that is the tipity top of the mountain, let me tell you.

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Well… That Doesn’t Work

Daily writing prompt
What notable things happened today?
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Suddenly my usual daily writing prompt workflow seems inadequate. It is 6:35am. The only thing that is notable that happened today is that I woke up and did my morning exercise without issue. There was one moment while I was still in bed where the cat jumped on me and missed landing on the family jewels by about an inch. That would have been notable for all the wrong reasons, right?

I guess I can extend the daily question to include the entirety of the last 24 hours. It’s my blog after all so I can do pretty much whatever I want… right? I guess.

Last night my step son came home. At the start of the day yesterday we weren’t expecting to see him this weekend. Toward the end of the work day we were expecting him to come later tonight. By the time I finished dinner he was on his way. That is notable for all the right reasons. I’m so happy he’s here. I just wish I wasn’t working in the office today, but it’s time to pack up and get ready for the morning commute.

Welcome home, Harry!

In the Office

The rules for our hybrid working environment are simple. We have to be in the office for 40% of the work days each month. That works out to approximately two days each week. Usually. Some months require an extra day to hit 40%. This month is not one of those months. This month just needs two days each week.

Last week I messed up my routine. I was feeling under the weather. Not bad enough to miss work, but bad enough to not want to go into the office and risk getting anyone else sick. I worked from home all five days last week. No office visits for me.

Because of that minor illness and my desire in the post Covid world to go out of my way to not get anyone else sick, I have two days to make up in order to get back onto the two days in the office pace.

I had two ideas for that. Idea number one was to work three days in the office this week, and three days next week. Not bad. Not good. Doable. Idea number two was to just bite the bullet and work four days in the office this week. Suck Suckity Suck Suck Suck for one week, then back to normal for the rest of the month.

I went into the office on Monday (traffic was mild). I went into the office on Tuesday (traffic was horrible). I am in the office today, Wednesday (traffic was bad but not as bad as Tuesday). Tomorrow I will have to make a tough decision. If I work from home tomorrow, I will need to come in three days next week (because I am sure as hell not coming into the office on Friday). If I work from the office tomorrow I will be back on track and not have to worry about any of this for the rest of June… but it will suck suck suckity suck to be in the office four days in a row (again, no way in hell I am coming in on Friday this week).

So what am I going to do?

I feel a little sick even thinking this… but I think I am going to work in the office. Four days in and one day at home… that was how our schedule worked pre-pandemic. The thought of that just blows chunks. It blows great big chunky chunks.

I think I am going to do it though. Oh help me please, I think I am going to do it.

Passion

Daily writing prompt
What are you passionate about?
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Is it weird that I don’t feel as though I am terribly passionate about anything? I don’t think I am a passionate person, generally speaking. I don’t know. I think I am pretty level headed about most things. There are a couple of passions though.

I’m passionate about my love for my wife and my family. Would there be a point otherwise? That sort of goes without saying.

I am passionate about music. The intensity comes and goes, but it’s always there to some degree. Right now it’s running pretty high. The idea of playing with the band regularly again is pretty exciting for me these days.

Anyone who knows me could have guessed that those two things would be my answer. No surprises here.

Summer

Daily writing prompt
What is your favorite season of year? Why?
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Heh heh… if we needed any more proof that a crappy AI was writing the daily prompts, I think the grammar error is it.

What is your favorite season of THE year? Heh heh. Sorry. As someone who typos and grammar errors so often that you’d think I was doing it on purpose, I should be one to talk. Still… heh heh.

Summer! My favorite season of year is the Summer. Hands down, no question, no contest. I hate being cold. In New England the winter runs from about September 1st through June 1st. We get a month of Spring, a few days of Autumn, and about six weeks of Summer. The rest of the year is frozen tundra awfulness*.

I cherish my short, glorious, warm weather season every year. Of course it rains every day now. That didn’t used to be the case, but it is now. Rain every day, no sun to speak of, but warm temperatures. If that’s the best I can hope for them I’ll take it. At least until we pack up and move to San Diego… someday.

*You probably think I am exaggerating, and I am… but only a little.

Rich Corinthian Leather*

Daily writing prompt
What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?
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Ah, luxury.

Is there anything in my life that can be described as a luxury? I bet there are some things that I take for granted that other people would consider a luxury item. I do live in a very privileged society after all.

Our house in the woods(ish), our two cars, my computer, my iPhone, my multiple electric guitars and amplifiers, our two cats, our mostly quiet suburban neighborhood. I guess to some those would all be considered luxuries. To me they are just normal stuff.

Do any of them rate as things I can’t live without? The house and the cars do in a way. I can live without our specific house (though I love it and never want to move away from it) but I don’t think I’d do very well without a place to live. Does that count? Same with the cars. I could live without these two specific cars, but without some motorized transportation that can get me where I need to be… that would suck. Losing the rest of those things would eliminate sources of happiness and productivity and whatnot, and make life more difficult, but would I be able to get along without them? Probably. I need a computer for work, but I don’t necessarily need my current personal computer, if you get what I mean. I could use it for work in a pinch, but I don’t have to.

I don’t know. There are a lot of things in my life that make things easier and (dare I say it) better, but if push came to shove I could probably get through my day to day without them. I wouldn’t want to, but I could if I had to.

Now let’s just hope that I didn’t jinx anything with this over confident, white male American privileged post. Duck and cover, Robert.

*Tell me you remember the 1970’s without telling me you remember the 1970’s.

Taglines? Nope

Daily writing prompt
If humans had taglines, what would yours be?
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I would not have a tagline or a catch phrase or anything like that. Nope, not me.

The best I could do would be to steal something from a movie, a book, or a song. I’m not interesting or important enough for anything more than that.

  • “There can be only one” from Highlander
  • “Lookin’ real good” from Better off Dead
  • “I have a bad feeling about this” from Star Wars
  • “No kitty, that’s a bad kitty!” from South Park
  • Literally every line from Spaceballs
  • Literally every line from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • “Spinning, whirling, still descending
    Like a spiral sea, unending!
    Sound and fury drowns my heart
    Every nerve is torn apart!” from a little ditty by Rush

You know, something like that. Something subtle, right?